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After having just beaten Anor Londo for the first time, and while in the midst of taking on the Lost Izalyth, i decided to do some Forest PvP. I went to the world of a hacker who repeatedly knocked me down without dealing damage, and who took 0 damage himself. At the time i did not know that there was an item which removes one's phantom from another's world, so i kept rolling away attempting to jump off. When i finally got away he sent me a message saying something along the lines of "Bad plaything, now I punish your stats." I looked at my stats and I flipped shit. I was at base Pyromancer stats while I was SL 65. Regrinding wouldnt have been a problem if i was SL1, but this would make that insanely difficult and had completely destroyed my character's pvp viability.

I sent him a rage message saying it was my first playthrough and he began to feel mercy. I made a new character and he beat some souls into it, quite literally. His attacks now gave souls instead of removing health, and he ended up feeding me a million souls. I leveled my character up to it's previous point, and upgraded my armorset of choice, though I then had to replay what i didn't realize was well near half of the game.

Dark Anor Londo, I invade as a darkwraith, run into the host, and a Sunbro. There's a brief wary pause, then a Darkmoon also invades. So already it's pretty cool with 4 different coloured characters on screen in the blueish background. I bow and throw a "Hello" stone, and everyone does the same, ends up being a 10 minute no weapons punch festival with everyone throwing "Hello" / "Thank You" / "Very Good" / "I'm Sorry" and dropping titanite presents, punch parrying and backstab punching, bowing, gesturing, dual weilding shields, changing headgear, shooting arrows at scenery, running around in circles, "Well, what is it?" / "Shrug" etc. I was actually in tears laughing so hard.

me and my friend are going through the silver knight archers co-oping because its a funny/annoying fight he decides to say fuck it when we get to the last part the silver night in the way of the next bon fire and does a jumping attack and kills both himself and knocks the silver knight off the edge I couldn't stop laughing.

Took a long break from the game and came back recently and have been cooping it with a friend who recently beat it. Everythings going good and fine, he knows all the routes to everything and I remember most of the fights and am still good with the mechanics.

We get to the 4 kings, jump down, you died I forgot to put the ring on. We try again, I roll off and fall about 3 stories and smack my head on the steps. Once more shall we, walk as slow as the game will allow to drop off and clip the LAST stair and die. Finally I'm like whatever and just walk all the way down to the bottom of the spiral and proceed to one shot the kings.

First time playing the game, I didn't know what kindling the bonfires did. Tried the gargoyles a couple times, and failed (I kept rolling off the edge). I ended up turning human to try kindling the bonfire to see what it did. Start working my way back up to the gargoyles and see a sign, also the first sign I had seen. I summon him and continue on to fight the gargoyles. The added distraction allowed me to beat them. At the time I wished there were some way I could thank him (didn't even think about the recent player list). Later I realized that was Solaire, and he was an NPC.

Most memorable pvp would probably have to be my first time being invaded. It was fairly early on on my first character. The message pops up and I stop and look for him. See him and he comes running up doing flips and throwing poison and breathing poison. I managed to beat him, which now I know he was just goofing around if he had access to all of that stuff he could've beaten me, but I've never seen another player like that since, and it made for quite the memorable first invasion.

So i wasdoing forest pvp for like, the 3rd time. I was SL 55ish, and had invaded the world of a guy dressed as Logan. I ran and hit him, then rolled away, doing some famage with my Uchi. But his health bar did not move at all.

He just stood there, unarmed. Did a gesture or two. Then another spirit invaded, a red phantom. Then they had a duel on the stairs. I saw a bunch of 600 damage hits and his health bar finally began going down. They were both left with a scratch, and then they ran at eah other. And both died. I got 1.5 million souls at SL 55 (a not-too-serious run at least). It was an epic duel with an amazing finish.

A couple of weeks ago I had some good fights with a 'Paul' (pretty sure thats his name, judging from his tag) in the Township. I'm not very good at incorporating pyromancies into my pvp play style, and because of that I enjoy facing 'good' pyro users - people who actually have a ton of pyromancies and switch them up/use them in tandem effectively. Paul was one such guy and the first I had faced. After two or three fights, I messaged him asking if he had any spare Cracked Redeye Orbs. He did. He dropped his red soapstone sign for me, and once I summoned him he promptly dropped 99 cracked orbs and bowed. Yay! We had a couple more encounters after that, most of which he won. Though I did get one or two wins and a lot of experience on how to face pyromancers! Fun times!

I was about level 20 when I was in Undead Parish. I was using my last cracked red eye orb from Firelink Shrine. I invaded this player and ran into another red phantom. Then the host summoned a third red phantom. The three red phantoms fought each other in the middle of the Parish church while the host kept saying "Very good".

Aw man, this guy will always stand out to me. I had just started a fresh run. Popped some humanity, kindled a fire, and ran off towards Undead Parish. I see the familiar invasion message, and accept fate. I see the guy, walk up to him, put my weapons away, and just stand there. He doesn't do anything, and I message him on LIVE and tell him that he can just kill me. He sends back "No need for that. PASS MY CHALLENGES AND MANY FABULOUS PRIZES CAN BE YOURS." He starts pointing to clusters of enemies, and has me kill them. The guy then drops a darkhand, bows, and heads back. So at SL5 I had a darkhand, and was one shorting everything. Truly an awesome guy.

best PvP fight, just by sequence:
Was darkmooning in AL, big hall before O&S. Successfully invade, after some moments host enters hall from bridge side (I was just down the stairs from O&S). Host was a dex build (can't remember his shield), I was rocking Tarkus + BK shield + occult Claymore + 5 (very high level char).
Host sees me, we both bow about 50m apart. Good start, let's get it on!
The fight starts, both of us turtling initially. Claymore swipes are slow, I get hit twice by his dex weapon, not looking too good (took away more than half my health), had made a small dent in host as well though.
Then the sweet bit: I switch my shield for my talisman. As soon as host sees this, he circles me with a quick roll- I guess he thought I was gonna hit him with Lightning Spear, so he wanted to get a backstab in while I was casting to where he was formerly standing.
Nope. Was casting WotG, which connects just as he moves in to backstab. Host gets stunned, I do a turnaround strike (didn't turn round- strike first, then aimed for behind me- gotta love the wide arc of the Claymore) followed by second strike, host down.
If you had seen it, it looked like some sort of promo video sequence, or some martial arts film fight, too smooth to be in-game footage. I've never been able to replicate this move again, as you all know if you aren't really close to your enemy WotG is useless- it was the sweet combination of host standing close enough to nuzzle my neckhair in expectation of backstabbing that made this move so sweet.
Has gotten me thinking though that if I were a faster player, than WotG is actually a hilarious backstab defence- guy expects to stun YOU with BS and get some more hits in, opposite happens. Of course, if people expect that move they could just roll through WotG and backstab you after all, so as said, timing timing timing... was still supersweet to pull it off.

So I just finished my SL 1 play through and wanted to do some invading. After my first invasion I realized that my lightning and fire clubs were to much to fight low levels. So I thought of the next best idea, 2 shields. 1 balder shield and 1 grass crest shield. Fought one guy and his summon and almost won. It's fun to hit someone in the face with a shield.

I had an awesome encounter with an invader I summoned in the burg. He didn't show signs of wanting to duel so he was ninja flipping around and junk. Then he dropped something and pointed to it and backed up. I was still unsure whether he was trying to trick me into picking it up but it ended up being the soul of Gwyn!!! That's when I knew he didn't want to kill me, so we started kicking each other around the burg until other invaders would show up. The weirdest part was that he started to back stab me with his fists (I think) and it didn't do any damage... He was also dressed as a spartan so that was cool. We then waved to each other and he rolled off a cliff.

I spawned pretty damn close to them. They hadn't noticed me, so I followed them down a bit and they started fighting the first crystal golem. I initiated by BS'ing the one closest to me (the host). The other guys did not seem to give half a shit, so i Lloyd'sd the host. The others were being pushed back by the golem and noticed me. They started to attack me so i went for some BS invincibility hoping to make one of these guys fall off this tiny teflon pillar. It didn't work, and now the golem is dead.

It felt like i would be pretty fucked if i hung around so i ran down a bit to the platform. And here's the cool part. I know that if you walk up close to the moonlight butterfly resting at that platform, it "activates" and starts attacking the host and his buddies, so i did that. They were terrified. The phantoms ran and jumped down into the cave with the crystal lizards. The host stayed, the host got pelted with some moonlight magic and the host YOU DIED'd

Most pleasurable moment in PVP for me was fighting this one guy in ornstein armor and everything armed to the teeth. Obviously he buffed up his stats, since he was able to do all the things like wearing the Artorias Shield, Dragonslayer Spear, still fast roll and spam WotG like a retard. First time I ended up killed against him, when I sent him a message along the lines of "Must've felt good to have enough stats to do all those things at SL 20, right?" and he just replied with a "Who came into who's world?", so I decided to use GFWL avoid option. Still got summoned into his world, beat him good, when suddenly he recharged to full health without even using anything. I bombarded him with Talismans, dodged all his miracles and shit, but when he'd get low he'd just keep going back up with no miracles used to heal or anything, so I decided to give him some justice. I was so infuriated I started up my own tools, because I started not to give a damn and hand him a taste of his own medicine. I turned tables on him and oneshot his sorry ass. I know cheating sucks, but that had to be done. I felt quite good right after too. :D

Not planning on becoming a regular cheater or anything of sorts, all that I usually manipulate with those trainers would be to fix stats to protect myself and my savefile against those script-kiddies, or try new builds, but this guy deserved the taste of justice

...as long as you don't let your anger cloud you to enable your cheater gear each time you lose a fight (yes, even against twinks- if they could have gotten their weps/ stats legitimately, it may be annoying but IS FAIR)- for that is the danger of having that stuff available, and that is the path to a side so dark that even Kaathe and Manus do not dare venture there...